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...TIME: Secretary-General Kofi Annan is leaving at the end of the year. Should his replacement be a woman...
...grim shadows of U.S. practices at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba. Experts from the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Commission announced last week that the U.S. practice of detaining prisoners in perpetuity and without trial is in violation of international law, and UN Secretary General Kofi A. Annan promptly expressed his support for the panel’s demand that Guantanamo be closed. In order to uphold the standards of the Geneva Convention, the Bush administration should comply with the proposals of the UN panel and allow all 500 Guantanamo prisoners access to a trial. Most...
...John Bolton, 57, became U.S. ambassador to the United Nations after President Bush installed him via a recess appointment last August. Blunt and outspoken, he chatted with TIME's Elaine Shannon and Romesh Ratnesar about being part of the bureaucracy, Iran's nuclear program and who should succeed Kofi Annan...
...SECRETARY-GENERAL KOFI ANNAN HAS CALLED ON THE WEST TO STEP UP EFFORTS TO STOP THE KILLING IN DARFUR. IS GENOCIDE THE RIGHT TERM FOR WHAT'S HAPPENING? Sounds right...
...HAVE A VIEW ON WHO SHOULD SUCCEED ANNAN AS SECRETARY-GENERAL? I have lots of views on lots of things. But the official American position is, we have never accepted any notion of geographical rotation and we favor the best-qualified candidate, wherever that candidate comes from. If the best-qualified person is an Asian, we'd be delighted. If the best-qualified person is from somewhere else, we'd be delighted at that too. Western Europe has had three Secretaries-General, Latin America has had one, Africa has had two, and Asia has had one. Eastern Europe has never...